Fuck AI

"AI needs to be able to work autonomously and continuously with less and less human babysitting. Your job is to identify problems that the LLM cannot solve on its own and help them not only solve them this time but be able to better solve them next time, not just for you but for everyone: repository-level context files, shared skills and prompts, and habit of ensuring that repeated failures trigger an investigation and a fix. Your job is to push the limits of what the LLM can do autonomously, step in for the things that it cannot, and always think of how you can improve the status quo."

Forgot to add "so that we can fire you in a couple of years." to the end.

CTO too.

Well, they just have AI Psychosis. Seems like a straightforward case.

Idk, we’ve been suggested Proton before many of times and we’ve sheets felt something off with it. Feeling like market with Honey rn tbh lol

The real tell here is when Yen berated an engineer who voiced concerns about security, saying "stop finding ways to be slow, start finding ways to be faster". He's a C-suite baby who wants what he wants RIGHT NOW!

When the suits start acting like engineers who care about best practices are being obstacles instead of valuable stewards of quality, you know you're dealing with losers who can't be trusted to not run things into the ground. Any walking back that Yen does now, you know he's just biding his time to ride out the kerfuffle, and he's just going to low-key abuse his employees at a slightly slower pace, but he's going to get what he wants.

Canceled my sub, moved my mail.

Soo stupid, their business model is reliant on people that move out of a free service based on principle.

This asshole has no clue. Migrating is always a pain, but I'm glad I'm no longer vulnerable to his stupidity harming me directly.

I genuinely wonder what these executives have in their mind.

What do they think? That engineers are good enough for being hired but not good enough to decide which tools to use?

If I hire a plumber and I tell them what tool to use, the plumber would either comply and do a bad job or will tell me to get lost.

Why do they think this is different?

Do some engineers like LLM? Sure! And let it be Do some engineers don’t like LLM? Yes… and let it be.

If these tools are so miraculous the engineers that use them will provide such good results that will naturally prevail.

Why the executives need to thumb the scale?

Ugh. Got another year on my prepaid plan. When I've tried making changes in the past they only ever offered credit for the unused time instead of a refund.

The first is a change in engineering culture and engineer mentality. Your job has fundamentally changed. It is no longer to write code, and LLMs are not here to help you write better code faster. Your job is to help the LLM write better code faster.

Emphasis theirs 🤮

Time to de-proton

I highly suggest Thundermail (tb.pro) if you wanna switch to a libre email provider. Mozilla hosts stalwart and their own libre mail client for you, along with providing 15 mail aliases and 3 custom domains, for a small price. I have been using it as my daily since past few months. I haven't found any bugs despite it being in beta.

I had kept my mail account around just as an alternate for cutting down on spam to my main, but this was a good excuse to dump it. No need to enable the fash anymore.

good thing proton didnt look that good in the first place and i didnt switch to them

This is the same bullshit AI arms race mentality that my company spews to us and every loser company takes up. Every company feels like they need to get faster. None do. Shockingly everyone still releases at the same pace. And even then no value gets added as 80% of the features are either dark patterns or garbage.

As a consumer you’ll never see the benefits of any of this madness. I certainly haven’t. It’s NFTs all over again where people insist I need a clumsy chatbot for reasons.

As an engineer my current reality of babysitting multiple LLM threads and acting as a go between between the llm i spun up and the llm reviewing the code is demoralizing. There’s no thought in this 80% of the time. The most challenging part is finding a way to keep up tech skills and make new ones when everyone has abandoned them.

Okay, so who has unlimited custom domain email aliases other than Proton? Having recently just set up a hundred or more of these suckers I’d have need of taking them with me.

This is terrible, but what is even worse is that they partnered with a Zionist Swiss university, that supports Israeli military and out criminal sanctions against students protesting against the genocide of Palestinians.

Partnership announcement.

Israel military connection and student prosecution.

This reads like every bad programmer/manager on Lemmy/Reddit that calls me a Luddite every time I push back on their wild assertions about LLMs and code. Absolute clownery.

This is so frustrating because I started degoogling exactly a year ago, and had finally managed to get completely free of Google mostly thanks to the proton ecosystem... But it took a whole year! I am just settling. I am a mom of two under-10yo boys in my forties. I don't have time for this shit. I thought I was gonna die a proton user. Fucking hell.

So what proton is saying is that they want fewer paying customers. Got it.